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    Lucky Jim
    'A brilliantly and preposterously funny book' Guardian'A flawless comic novel ... I loved it then, as I do now. It has always made me laugh out loud' Helen Dunmore, The TimesJim Dixon has accidentally fallen into a job at one of Britain's new red brick universities. A moderately successful future in the History Department beckons - as long as Jim can stave off the unwelcome advances of fellow lecturer Margaret, survive a madrigal-singing weekend at Professor Welch's, deliver a lecture on 'Merrie England' and resist Christine, the hopelessly desirable girlfriend of Welch's awful son Bertrand. Inspired by Amis's friend, the poet Philip Larkin, Jim Dixon is a timeless comic character, adrift in a hopelessly gauche and pretentious world, in a witty campus novel that skewers the hypocrisies and vanities of 1950s academic life.With an introduction by David Lodge
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    Mary: A Fiction , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 158min
    This story is, in essence, the novelization of Wollstonecraft's ultimate work, Vindication of the Rights of Women. It follows a girl who grows up in a moderately wealthy English family in 18th century, trying to find love and individuality in a time when such concepts are incomprehensible to society. Mary, the main character, follows life and love through a turbulent series of ups and downs while trying to remain true to herself. Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) was a British feminist, writer, and philosopher. She is best known for her treatise A Vindication for the Rights of Women which puts forth that women are not naturally inferior to men and it is their lack of education that leads them to appear so. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Nicola Barber. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/gdan/001133/bk_gdan_001133_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Mark of the Moderately Vicious Vampire: The Kent Montana Series, Book 4 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 370min
    A pain in the neckHe turns into a bat. Drinks the blood of the living. And never pays income taxes. He's the Vampire Lamar, and since he's come to New England, the body count's been rising every time he rises.But even eternal nightlife can take on a chill without companionship. The unholy fiend-in-need seeks a down-to-earth, flesh-and-blood girl who's his...er, type, for a very long-term relationship.But where there are vampires, there are vampire hunters. Unfortunately their stakeout for an eccentric "nobleman" sends them chasing a mortal target named...Kent MontanaHe's the descendant of Scottish nobility, or so he claims. He's an out-of-work actor. He never gets a good script...but his life is more exciting than any science-fiction movie. In fact, his list is a science-fiction movie.(previously published as written by Lionel Fenn) ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Josh Brogadir. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/131209/bk_acx0_131209_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The House the Beatles Built: A Memoir of My Time Working for Geoffrey Giuliano , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 47min
    The House the Beatles Built: A Memoir of My Time Working for Geoffrey Giuliano is a witty, irreverent, turbulent take on a young man's internship as the literary associate of rock biographer Giuliano.Set in 1991, during the last gasp of the white glove publishing industry, this was a time before the Internet, before authors were interviewed in their living rooms on Skype but rather traveled the world like kings, bedding down in exotic locales the world over at the publishers' expense.Journeyman author Brandon Stickney gives us a glimpse into the narcissistic, upside down world of the outrageous tabloid biographer in the last golden moments of an industry now decimated by the digital revolution. It was a time of riches for even moderately successful authors caught here as a snapshot of avarice, vice, and unrestrained ego, served up in a delightfully funny and engaging narrative. Narrated by his old boss. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Geoffrey Giuliano. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/166470/bk_acx0_166470_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Perfect Mess: The Hidden Benefits of Disorder, Hörbuch, Digital, 189min
    Ever since Einstein's study of Brownian Motion, scientists have understood that a little disorder can actually make systems more effective. Yet most people still shun disorder or suffer guilt over the mess they can't avoid. With a spectacular array of true stories and case studies of the hidden benefits of mess, A Perfect Mess overturns the accepted wisdom that tight schedules, organization, neatness, and consistency are the keys to success. Drawing on examples from business, parenting, cooking, the war on terrorism, retail, and even the career of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Abrahamson and Freedman demonstrate that moderately messy systems use resources more efficiently, yield better solutions, and are harder to break than neat ones. Applying this idea on scales both large (government, society) and small (desktops, garages), A Perfect Mess uncovers the ways messiness can trump neatness, and will help you assess the right amount of disorder for any system. Language: English. Narrator: David H. Freedman. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/hach/000002/bk_hach_000002_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    In the Memorial Room , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 277min
    In the Memorial Room is a brilliant black comedy by the celebrated author of An Angel at My Table. Harry Gill, a moderately successful writer of historical fiction, has been awarded the annual Watercress-Armstrong Fellowship - a 'living memorial' to the poet Margaret Rose Hurndell. He arrives in the small French village of Menton, where Hurndell once lived and worked, to write. But the Memorial Room is not suitable - it has no electricity or water. Hurndell never wrote here, though it is expected of Harry. Janet Frame's previously unpublished novel draws on her own experiences in Menton, France, as a Katherine Mansfield Fellow. It is a wonderful social satire, a send-up of the cult of the dead author, and - in the best tradition of Frame - a fascinating exploration of the complexity and the beauty of language. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Humphrey Bower. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/boli/003137/bk_boli_003137_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Dead Collections (eBook, ePUB)
    A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in your own body in this clever, humorous, and heartfelt novel. When archivist Sol meets Elsie, the larger than life widow of a moderately famous television writer who's come to donate her wife's papers, there's an instant spark. But Sol has a secret: he suffers from an illness called vampirism, and hides from the sun by living in his basement office. On their way to falling in love, the two traverse grief, delve into the Internet fandom they once unknowingly shared, and navigate the realities of transphobia and the stigmas of carrying the "vampire disease." Then, when strange things start happening at the collection, Sol must embrace even more of the unknown to save himself and his job. DEAD COLLECTIONS is a wry novel full of heart and empathy, that celebrates the journey, the difficulties and joys, in finding love and comfort within our own bodies.
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    Guns , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 139min
    Guns are a black and white issue, right? Well, it's not quite that simple. This book covers every aspect of the gun debate in the US - from hunting to mass shootings to questions about constitutional rights, no angle is left unexplored. Written mostly as the current debate about guns and gun control was heating up, you'll find well-written and thought out points here as well as introspection about the dangers inherent in an armed and sometimes unstable society. Questions about what the Second Amendment is really for and the seeming ubiquity of violence in society are juxtaposed against concrete concerns about self-protection, tradition, and the clash of cultures in a fantastically listenable and engaging format that moves at a breathless pace. One of the only books that presents every side of the issue, this is a must-listen for those even moderately interested in the topic. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: John Glouchevitch, Tanya Eby. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/027813/bk_adbl_027813_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Death's Own Door: Lydmouth, Book 6 , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 585min
    From the number-one best-selling author of The Ashes of London and The Fire Court, this is the sixth instalment in the acclaimed Lydmouth series.When the body of Rufus Moorcroft, a middle-aged widower with a distinguished war record, is found in his summerhouse, the verdict is suicide. But both reporter Jill Francis and her lover, Detective Richard Thornhill, approaching the case from different angles, discover there's more to it than that.  The key to the mystery stretches back to a highly charged summer before the war and to another death. A local asylum plays a part, as do a moderately famous artist and his wife; Superintendent Williamson, now retired and loathing it; Councillor Bernie Broadbent, a man with more pies than fingers to put in them; a Cambridge don; an aristocratic unmarried mother, now gleefully drawing her old-age pension; and - to Thornhill's surprise and growing horror - his own wife, Edith. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Philip Franks. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/052426/bk_adbl_052426_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    How to Get Rich in TV Without Really Trying , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 183min
    Did you know that you can be stupid, incompetent and even moderately repulsive and still make a a fortune in television? It's done every day! Did you know that you can be a cowboy star without knowing how to ride a horse? That you can earn more than the president of a network merely by knowing how to open a refrigerator door? And that you can be a famous news commentator without knowing anything but how to sound worried? These and many more television careers await you, all described with loving detail and with case histories which we have carefully screened for libel (but not enough, since you're going to recognize a number of them). People in television will find How to Get Rich in TV Without Really Trying very funny, since they will undoubtedly think that it refers to the other fellow and not to themselves. Others will find it a joyous, headlong romp through a dadaesque part of the American scene. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: David Zema. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/acx0/001733/bk_acx0_001733_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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